Tag: Happy Ending
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When given a chance
This morning’s store trip was enjoyable for the first time in a while. Perfect weather, sunny and 40. The sun was filtered to bring out colors sharply. While waiting at the bus stop I noticed that somebody had drawn a heart and some words in this dirt, obviously meant to be visible from the bus.…
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Luminous and numinous
Every now and then I notice a clear night and check to see if the aurora is likely to be visible. Nothing happening tonight, but SpaceWeather.com has a sight more beautiful and luminous than an aurora: = = = = = START LUMINOSITY: This is an AI Free Zone: Text created by Large Language Models…
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Solvitur ambulando
I’ve been grinding since December on ADA mandates. There’s no way to fully satisfy the Kafkan requirements. The rules are subjective and exact, a bureaucrat’s wet dream. But we still have to get “close enough” to make the product acceptable for some customers. First I spent two months filling in text descriptions for 2000 different…
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Monster stopped killing. GOOD FUCKING RIDDANCE.
Paul Unehrlich, the philosophical source of total genocide, finally stopped killing. Unehrlich persuaded all governments and corporations that life is exponential. Corporations loved him because their God, the Dow, is exponential by definition. Infinite orgasm for billionaires. Governments loved him because an exponential happens when you eliminate negative feedback. Governments require open-loop systems because open-loop…
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Yahoooo!
Nice comeback story via Verge: = = = = = START QUOTE: It’s basically impossible to sum up the Yahoo story, but the short version of it is that a long time ago Yahoo paid Google to run the search box on its website, and basically everything has gone sideways since. After a long series…
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Good for Spain!
A Spanish company and an Italian company have teamed up to help Venezuela maintain and expand its petroleum production. It’s good to see Spain playing its old role as genuine neutral. It joined the Sorosian crowd for a while after 2017. Spain and Portugal, formerly huge imperialists, learned a lesson and stayed out of the…
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Positive signs from the neighborhood (redated)
Jan 13, 2026: For 20 years a vacant apartment building was the worst thing in the neighborhood, constantly squatted and constantly visited by cops who weren’t allowed to do anything. This situation was NOT understandable. The property was owned by an LLC who could afford to fix things if they wanted to. In 2017 the…
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Copying the New Deal
Good is good no matter who does it. Bad is bad no matter who does it. In 2020 Trump did the evilest thing in 70 years, and the most widespread evil in all of human history. In his second term his admin is doing the standard American evil things like bombing foreign countries and enriching…
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Wow, that’s unimpressive.
Yesterday I was noticing some “instant animation” by one of Altman’s drug sellers. First thought: Wow, that’s impressive! Second thought: Wait. 3d programs like Poser and Blender could do that sort of thing a long time ago. And I was writing Python programs to automate those moves 20 years ago. Natural facial expressions, natural body…
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Extremely positive signs from schools!
1. Enid High has an aviation class. They spent the last three years BUILDING THEIR OWN AIRPLANE! It has been certified as flightworthy by FAA. It’s a beautiful plane and a fantastic achievement. 2. On a much smaller scale, nice to see a school teaching math the RIGHT way! Cheney High, south of Spokane, is…
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Raking record
Time to start the roof-raking record for this winter. As always, this should be in my private daily worklog, but I started doing it here, so I’ll continue the tradition. = = = = Last winter started late and needed only one raking. First raking this year Jan 8. Depth was 3″, not necessarily enough…
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LemonADA 5
Basic rule for inventions, genomes and languages: The original version starts with all the needed features. Over time as it branches into different subtypes for different purposes, it simplifies and loses features. While grinding through my courseware data files to insert alt-text for screen readers, I’m bumping into a few vestigial leftovers of a MUCH…
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Signal for 2026
Found in this afternoon’s walk: A real pencil, clearly well used. Nice signal from the analog universe.
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LemonADA 3
Damn, this is turning out to be fun! Lemon: Last night I was thinking about other pointless expenditures caused by ADA, especially the curb cuts in places where there isn’t a sidewalk. Thought derailed to traffic lights with announcements on the Walk cycle. 20, 19, 18, 17, etc. LemonADA: Well, those lights turned out to…
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More LemonADA
Following on previous LemonADA item. Lemon: Had a moment of panic this morning. While running up ADA alt-texts for the second courseware package I noticed that the source files I’m using aren’t up to date, and I can’t find the latest ones. Back in 2023 the current publisher finally acquired the rights for some better…
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